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If I'm working on a small hobby project by myself, or some open-source stuff, sure! I agree the Jetbrains stuff is great, I've been using them since 2001 with IntelliJ IDEA.

But most of the large industrial codebases I've worked on at FAANG companies break IDEs one way or another - either because of the build process, or the size of the codebase, etc.




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